Somendra Narayan is an Assistant Professor of Strategy and Innovation at the Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and the Director of the Amsterdam Digital Transformation Lab. His research focuses on strategic change in the context of emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, with an emphasis on purposeful and sustainable business model innovation, strategic decision-making under complexity, and the role of cognitive diversity, decolonial thought, and pluralist epistemologies in fostering inclusive innovation. His work further engages with themes like responsible digital transformation, quantum transformations, digital social entrepreneurship, and green-digital twin transitions from a socio-technical systems perspective.